[Info-vax] Why so much Unix envy?

[Shark8]

On 02-Sep-14 14:49, Robert Deininger wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 2, 2014 3:37:01 PM UTC-4, Shark8 wrote:
>>
>>> You can do wonders with cleaning up C code now by looking at the warnings
>>> and fixing what they warn you about.  Instead, most programmers just turn
>>> off all the warnings to get a "clean" compile.
>>
>>
>> Which means that the warnings are, generally, useless.
>
> My first thought was about useless programmers, not useless warnings.  :-)

LOL -- This is true.
I blame "the industry" and how until very recently there's been 
surprisingly little drive to "do things the right way"; this is changing 
with the pressure for security (see Heartbleed, et al) and [in some 
areas] the legal liability for incorrect code (RE: the Toyota firmware 
bug that cost them Billions).

A particularly flagrant [sub]section of "the industry" is 'webdev', both 
front-end (see JavaScript) and back-end (see PHP) where the 
common/standard languages work against correctness. [Dynamically-typed 
languages, in general, don't help correctness -- and 
implicit-conversions destroy what little hope you could have for it.]